For the DPG closing event of the Quantum Year on Saturday, November 15, 2025, at the Halle Münsterland.
Exhibition
Representatives from education, science, and industry presented innovative ideas and showcased exciting technological achievements and exhibits from 100 years of research and development in the field of quantum technology. Alongside the exhibition, there were general-interest lectures and workshops for students.
Closing Concert : An Art Experience of the Quantum World
The closing concert in the evening represents the highlight of the 100-year celebration: an intertwining of music and physics.
Jacob Beautemps will guide us through the musical presentation of the composer Yannick Paget. His work "Fundamental Interactions" has been specially adapted and expanded for the closing celebration in Münster. He will be musically accompanied by students and pupils from Münster, as well as special guest David Rauterberg.
Lectures
Five general-interest lectures on the development and future of quantum technologies.
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13:00 o'clock
Prof. Dr. Carsten Schuck | Universität Münster
Quantum computers and quantum internet
Quantum technology promises groundbreaking advances in communication, computer and sensor technology. But what is behind quantum computers, quantum cryptography and entangled particles?
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13:30 o'clock
Diverse | Unternehmen & Forschungsinstitute
Speakers Corner
Kurzvorträge der Aussteller.
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14:00 o'clock
Prof. Dr. Kai Schmitz | Universität Münster
Quantum relics from the early universe
The galaxies in our universe are not randomly distributed, but form a form a characteristic large-scale structure: a cosmic network of nodes and network of nodes and empty spaces, in which galaxy clusters are connected to each other by filamentary clusters of galaxies.
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15:00 o'clock
Dr. Raffaela Busse | LWL-Museum Münster (Planetarium)
Wintering with neutrinos
Raffaela Busse spent the winter in the coldest and most remote place in the world to monitor the “IceCube” detector.
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16:00 o'clock
Prof. Dr. Götz Neuneck | Chair of the Pugwash Council and Chair of the Federation of German Scientists
Science Diplomacy and the work of physicists for Peace and disarmament
Physicists had a major share to build nuclear weapons and tried to prevent their use in the aftermath of World War II during the Cold War and beyond. They worked as advisors, diplomats and advocates for governments, the civil society and the international community.
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17:30 o'clock
Prof. Dr. Markus Arndt | University of Vienna
100 years of quantum theory and the search for lost reality
When Louis de Broglie published in 1923 that every massive object is associated with a wave, this was a bold idea at first. Later, this idea was formalized as quantum theory in 1925-1927 by Heisenberg, Schrödinger and Dirac, among others. This became the basis for a whole century of astounding discoveries and philosophical puzzles.